binocular vision and premature complaint

Two ways of reporting the discussion of anomalous San Juan Ridge park survey results in the Board of Supes meeting:

• The Union:

  ...consultant Josh Morris told the board...[that] the poll also found only marginal support for the formation of a district and assessment in the San Juan Ridge area...
  
  Rich Peltier, a member of the San Juan Ridge Recreation and Park district formation exploratory committee, said he did not believe survey results. For one, there might have been mail tampering, he said, and surveys might have been lost, he said. [end of subject]

  
  
• Yubanet:

  ...Several members of the public expressed doubt about the survey. Rich Peltier, Chair of the San Juan Ridge Exploratory Committee, refered to possible mail tampering and previous studies and surveys that showed very strong support, contradicting the new survey...

to me, the discrepancy between results of previous surveys and the current one - and the direction of that discrepancy - would seem to be valuable information.


The complaint:

The Nevada County Public Law Center's upcoming easement class is filled up; I sure hope (but, being a cynic, doubt) that they'll be putting a transcript of the info covered, and Q&As, up on the web. Are they not publicly funded? do we not wish our famed taxpayer dollars to be spent in the most cost-effective fashion? will not county residents (other than the 70 who will be taking time out of their day to show up in person) get vastly more benefit for their tax dollars if they have full, rapid, easy access to what was covered in the class? public interest is not being served if public experts needlessly limit public access to their expertise.